Análise das tensões nas fronteiras da Amazônia observadas através dos documentos do Exército Brasileiro produzidos na primeira metade do século XX:

Fernando da Silva Rodrigues

Fernando da Silva Rodrigues Pós-doutor em História Política, professor do PPGH-UNIVERSO, coordenador do Grupo de Pesquisa His-tória Militar e Fronteiras do CNPq, pesquisador do Centro de Estudos Estratégicos do Exército e Jovem Ci-entista do nosso Estado, da FAPERJ.

Keywords: Military, Politics, Frontiers, Amazon

Abstract

The objective of this research is to analyze the tensions on the borders of the Amazon in the first half of the 20th century, through the documentation produced by the Brazilian Army, which reveals the institutional position on the military conflicts that occurred in the 1930s in the South America, seeking to identify in these documents historical and political constructions on border tensions. The article reinforces that, in addi-tion to the regional conflicts, there were indirectly established political tensions between Brazil and Argenti-na due to the traditional rivalry and the dispute for control of regional power. The investigation was based on the theoretical arguments established by the geopolitics of Mário Travassos considering, for this purpose, the territorial occupation and the control of the terrestrial limits, for the maintenance of the national sove-reignty.

Analysis of tensions at the borders of the Amazon and the Central West observed through the Brazilian Army documents produced in the first half of the 20th Century

Militares

Abstract